CUPS 2.2.9 is a bug fix release that addresses issues in the scheduler,
IPP Everywhere support, CUPS library, and USB printer support. Changes include:
- Localization changes (Issue #5348, Issue #5362, Issue #5408)
- Documentation updates (Issue #5369)
- The lpadmin command would create a non-working printer in some error cases
(Issue #5305) - The scheduler would crash if an empty
AccessLogdirective was specified
(Issue #5309) - Fixed a regression in the changes to ippValidateAttribute (Issue #5322,
Issue #5330) - Fixed a crash bug in the Epson dot matrix driver (Issue #5323)
- Automatic debug logging of job errors did not work with systemd (Issue #5337)
- The web interface did not list the IPP Everywhere "driver" (Issue #5338)
- The IPP Everywhere "driver" now properly supports face-up printers
(Issue #5345) - Fixed some typos in the label printer drivers (Issue #5350)
- Multi-file jobs could get stuck if the backend failed (Issue #5359,
Issue #5413) - The IPP Everywhere "driver" no longer does local filtering when printing to
a shared CUPS printer (Issue #5361) - The lpadmin command now correctly reports IPP errors when configuring an
IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5370) - Fixed some memory leaks discovered by Coverity (Issue #5375)
- The PPD compiler incorrectly terminated JCL options (Issue #5379)
- The cupstestppd utility did not generate errors for missing/mismatched
CloseUI/JCLCloseUI keywords (Issue #5381) - The scheduler now reports the actual location of the log file (Issue #5398)
- Added a USB quirk rule (Issue #5420)
- The scheduler was being backgrounded on macOS, causing applications to spin
(rdar://40436080) - The scheduler did not validate that required initial request attributes were
in the operation group (rdar://41098178) - Authentication in the web interface did not work on macOS (rdar://41444473)
- Fixed an issue with HTTP Digest authentication (rdar://41709086)
- The scheduler could crash when job history was purged (rdar://42198057)
- Dropped non-working RSS subscriptions UI from web interface templates.
- Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.
Enjoy!